Sarah Manvel

The Arctophile @phewtus.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:39 UTC

#BOTD 1938, Hokkaido, Japan
Tura Satana: Japanese American actress, vedette, and exotic dancer. Her work includes the exploitation film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, and the science fiction horror film The Astro-Zombies. Iconic gets thrown around a lot nowadays but Tura is iconic and then some.

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 15:52 UTC

Outro by M83 is suddenly being used in a beer ad, but I know it as the theme song of Versailles, a TV show I've barely ever heard anybody talk about and which I thought was wonderful. Sexy and wild and broadly historically accurate and which introduced me to Tygh Runyan for which I'm grateful

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:25 UTC

(That trailer makes London look spacious and sunny! The Americans clearly have heavy fingerprints all over it. And if we can't guess the ending from it I'll eat a DVD of Love Story)

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:23 UTC

We Live in Time: She loved Bach, the Beatles, Beethoven, and me. When I asked her who she loved the most she laughed and said, "Alphabetical." It bothered me because either way I wasn't first.

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:01 UTC

(That was the in-flight movie when we moved to Japan. I've still never seen it properly but I've yet to forget watching my mother watching that on the plane)

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 13:00 UTC

Evidently the races have started, because now it's The Chariots of Fire theme 😁

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:53 UTC

Finally a song I don't recognise this is more like it (for the kids)

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

MNEK now, finally some proper local non-geriatric tunes (and the kids are screaming their approval)

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:47 UTC

WANNABE. How am I going to get any work done????

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:46 UTC

In a surprise to absolutely no one, the kids weren't into Destiny's Child

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:45 UTC

Enjoy it, Foreigner James

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:43 UTC

Omg even better it's Bills Bills Bills. On the souwf London pulse this Dad™

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:41 UTC

Shall I climb onto my roof to holler requests? I want No Diggity

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:40 UTC

The Dad™ is clearly one of my followers because now he's delighting the neighbourhood (my windows are closed) with No Scrubs. I cannot tell you how ridiculous this is

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 12:36 UTC

A Dad™ has clearly taken over the DJ responsibilities, as the last three songs have been Under Pressure, Don't Stop Believing and Brown Eyed Girl

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 11:48 UTC

Natalie Goldberg's Banana Rose: The shock these days is not the bisexuality but the hippie school where the kids are regularly fed shrooms and acid. How the world shifts and spins, eh?

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 09:32 UTC

I am about to collapse from a sympathy sugar rush listening to all the kids screaming along to Fight Song

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 09:29 UTC

For the first time since the before times the local rugby club is hosting a sports day. I'm listening to the music blasting over the tannoy which must be carrying half a mile at least and to be extremely clear this isn't a complaint. The kids need their milestones and their fun!

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 07:24 UTC

I figured you'd go for "a gentleman never tells"

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 05:54 UTC

I'll find out in a few months!

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:31 UTC

I have just assembled and submitted a fairly complicated pitch on a whim so please wish me luck with it

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 10, 2024 at 00:29 UTC

If you come over to my house you can watch my Green Wing DVDs, in which Olivia Colman is a harried mother working in HR whose arse wins the photocopying contest

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 23:01 UTC

In my part of London you have to help buy the tree and commit to looking after it and they do the rest www.streettreesforliving.org/im-lewisham-...

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 22:50 UTC

Win a thrilling trip to Huntsville, Alabama! www.odeon.co.uk/offers-and-c...

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Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 09, 2024 at 19:16 UTC

Listening to the commentators fluttering over Kylian Mbappé is really adorable

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